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Cursuviam··on English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013)
This would make a great Polandball

edit: Did not expect downvotes on this. Curious why

Cursuviam··on Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%
Discords for small niches and personal servers are increasingly popular. Many subreddits have an associated discord.
Cursuviam··on For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom
I don't understand your ps. Are you saying they should or shouldn't use the term South Asian?
Cursuviam··on Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay (1990)
It pays to be seen as honest, not actually honest.
Cursuviam··on Public protest against Amazon
Of course it's not literally slavery or indentured servitude, but it does share some common elements that are useful for our analysis. In particular, they both involve voluntary commiting yourself to restrictive labor in exchange for coming to the US.
Cursuviam··on Public protest against Amazon
I suppose indentured servitude is a more apt metaphor.
Cursuviam··on When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
China is a much bigger market than India in 1973
Cursuviam··on Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
Messenger already has an encrypted mode on devices, though I agree default encryption seems unlikely.
Cursuviam··on Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
It's their family motto, so many Starks have said it
Cursuviam··on Software Engineering at Google (2017)
Blaze is the internal version, such as borg vs kubernetes
Cursuviam··on Erik Demaine's Folding and Unfolding Page (2010)
It was a wonderful class! When I took it, the class sessions were basically open problem solving sessions involving said advance data structures. Apparently, the class leads to at least 2 or 3 published papers whenever its held.
Cursuviam··on World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity
Which makes sense for a British publication
Cursuviam··on 500 miles (2002)
Sure, you can prove a minimal distance. Think of this problem as a metal chain. Each link of the chain enforces a maximal distance on the nodes it adjoins. The chain is bound on either end to some fixed point.

In an non-constrained case, sure, there's no-minimal link distance. You just have a pile of chain.

However, if you make the chain taut between the two points, say by decreasing the number of nodes in the chain or the maximal distance of links, the minimal distance between nodes then approaches the maximal distance between nodes. When you have a chain constrained to the straight line between the two points, the maximal distance between nodes is equal to the minimal distance between nodes.

Cursuviam··on 500 miles (2002)
You could use this to prove that N devices are spread fairly geographically evenly near the line between two devices you know the location of, if the transport latency was fairly constant.

If you cross this line over multiple countries, you now have a system where you can prove that the devices are spread across some number of the different countries, which probably has some useful properties, like making nation-state attacks slightly more difficult.

Cursuviam··on Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline
I also prefer having a thicker phone in exchange for durability and battery life, so I current have the Galaxy S8 Active, which does very well on those fronts.

Sadly, it appears it didn't sell particularly well, thus no S9 Active.

Cursuviam··on Lyft Files for IPO
"Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none." (From Hamilton)
Cursuviam··on Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?
Same here. The only real work I had to do was removing some unnecessary imports because of the new improvements to mod namespaces.
Cursuviam··on The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
They mean plurality.
Cursuviam··on Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
Agreed. For example, the Media Lab and administration took opposing sides during the whole Senior House fiasco.

The MIT administration overall is incredibly lawsuit/risk averse after a bunch of heavy settlements, such as the Shin case, the sodium case, and the Wellesley girlfriend stabbing.

Cursuviam··on Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
Automated deploys aren't a magic bullet and can still break production, even at a big megacorp with tons of infra and tests to keep prod safe.
Cursuviam··on Building your own shell using Rust
Bash shortcut guides get most of the useful ones. https://github.com/fliptheweb/bash-shortcuts-cheat-sheet
Cursuviam··on Building your own shell using Rust
I second this greatly! Too many people roll their own line editors and always mess up the readline (emacs) shortcuts.
Cursuviam··on Building your own shell using Rust
Having written a shell in C, shells require a lot of string and buffer manipulation, which I prefer doing in rust for both security and ergonomic reasons.
Cursuviam··on Story of a failed pentest
I mean its consistent with the fact that they actually had good security, thus they're probably not shorting the IT budget.
Cursuviam··on America’s Hidden Duopoly
FPTP with the electoral college makes my vote count for nothing voting in a solid red or blue state. I despise this fact. Elections only really focus on swing states and thus swing states have undue influence.
Cursuviam··on Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem
Yeah, the only reason I can remember SIGKILL (9) is because of kill -9.
Cursuviam··on AT&T blacks out HBO, Cinemax for Dish, Sling TV users over carriage dispute
Or a boat? Air travel is pretty necessary for going across the oceans these days. I don't really understand that as being a luxury compared to watching television.
Cursuviam··on A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
I always thought the name was supposed to evoke how masochistic it is.
Cursuviam··on Ask HN: YouTube down?
Direct videos are up again, but it looks like other site features are wonky
Cursuviam··on Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career
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